Sunday, 7 October 2012

Hello,I'm a mum to four boys and wife to a wonderful man.
We live in
Busselton, a pretty sea-side town in Western Australia. My family provides
me with inspiration to scrapbook - their handsome faces will often grace my
pages. I enjoy the whole process: from taking the pictures, to planning the
page, to playing with pretty papers and embellishments. My style has
evolved over the years. I love seeing the new styles of papers that come
out and enjoy keeping up with new techniques. I like to tell the story
behind my pictures, but also really enjoy the arty side to scrapbooking - my
pages will include paint, ink, mist and texture. My style of scrapbooking
often depends on what challenge I'm playing along with or collection of
papers I'm working with. I love to share what I create - you can view all
my work at: Chantelle's Creative Space

Scrapbooking provides many opportunities and I've met some wonderful people
who inspire me. I'm fortunate to be on a few design teams and I love the
challenges they provide.

Here is a sample of my scrapbook pages:

Please join Chantelle and ARTastic creative team in this months challege. You might like to view her wonderful step by step tutorial to see how she put her gorgeous mixed media piece together and create your own to share with us.

Monday, 1 October 2012

will come to you from mixed media artist, Liza Posar and is hosted by our creative team member, Chantelle.

Criteria - handmade flowers

A little about Liza Posar.

Liza was born in Melbourne in 1960 and studied Fashion/Textiles at
Strathfield School of Textiles, Sydney 1984-87, and for a number of years
worked in the fashion industry. She then started exploring different mediums
and found that it gave her the freedom to express herself on canvas using a
visual language that brings together drawn images of fantasy, reality, collaged
images and the written word. When creating she uses watercolours, acrylics,
fabric, chalks, inks, oils, markers, decorative paper, stickers, glitter and
found objects and many more. Her funky, shabby artwork is based on everything
that inspires her everyday: people, nature and life. Liza's work has been
published in various Australian papercraft magazines and has exhibited in a
number of exhibitions.

I had purchased a scrap of lovely fabric long ago, but I actually don’t know what it is…slightly heavier that chiffon, but still flowy & soft, and using the heat gun on this was so easy. The edges of the fabric melted so quickly, using my trusty pliers made things easier. I have added a photo of the goodies I used as well. I stitched only 2 or 3 layers together, as they were gloriously curled& looking lovely!

Please upload the DIRECT link to your actual
entry with the link tool on the LEFT by midnight on October 31st, 2012. We'd love
to see your paper, digital, card and off the page submissions but please
remember we appreciate original entries (you may combine with a sketch).

February random draw prize

2nd random draw prize if more than 8 entries

January inspiration is by Chris Vella called Joy.

JANUARY entries ...

January Prize

JAN second prize - if more than 8 entries

Donated by Sharon Bishop

NO WORD VERIFICATION please

Our Creative Team love to leave comments on each and every entry, so please make it easier for them to do so and remove WORD VERIFICATION for your comments. If you choose to use specialist galleries please be aware we may not be able to leave comments for you.

ARTastic is a challenge blog with a difference. We find inspiration in works of art.THE RULES - You don't need to be arty to play along with us - we accept traditional paper, digital, mixed media and off the page creations at any level. International entries are welcome. You may combine with 3 other challenges. Please include our inspirational artwork and a link back to ARTastic on your entry and tell us how you were inspired by our artwork.